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It is one matter for a BJP chief minister who is not known for choosing his words carefully to criticise former US president Barack Obama’s comments on the need to protect minority rights in India. It is quite another for two members of the Cabinet Committee on Security who ...

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday criticised former United States President Barack Obama’s recent comments about minority rights in India, saying that Washington had bombed six Muslim-dominated countries during his regime.Obama had made the statement on Friday, hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi was to meet US President ...

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday hit out at the opposition and former US President Barack Obama for raising “non-issues” related to the treatment of minorities in the country.At a press conference, without naming Obama, she said that six Islamic nations, including Syria, Yemen and Iraq, were bombed during ...

Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday slammed former US president Barack Obama's statement about minority rights in India, saying his remarks were surprising as six Muslim-majority countries had faced US "bombing" during his tenure.She said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has received the highest civilian awards from 13 countries, including ...

A senior Indian minister has made an unusual claim about the well-being of Indian Muslims. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told a conference in Washington that Muslims couldn’t be doing as badly as is increasingly reported in the Western media.The proof? Their population has increased since independence from British rule ...

"The discussion on debt servicing on Wednesday was "absolutely positive" with all stakeholders, including China, "positively engaged," said  Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday Updated On - 10:31 AM, Fri - 14 April 23 Photo: Twitter Washington: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday expressed satisfaction with the progress on multiple ...

Nirmala Sitharaman comparing the situation of Muslims in India to that in Pakistan, and citing the “growing” Muslim population as an indicator of Muslim well-being in the country, was found to be unsettling to the netizens online Published Date - 07:46 PM, Tue - 11 April 23 File Photo ...

Union minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said that the perception that Muslims do not face discrimination in India does not hold ground as the community’s numbers in the population have grown since 1947. She claimed that those claiming that Muslims face discrimination have no idea about ground realities.Sitharaman made ...

Nirmala Sitharaman further said that the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) are also holding a roundtable on Global Sovereign Debt. Published Date - 09:24 AM, Tue - 11 April 23 New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday slammed the reports appearing in Western media about violence ...

Muslims doing better in India than Pakistan: Nirmala Sitharaman counters Western perception of minorities in country (Watch) | Washington: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday (local time) gave a befitting reply to the negative Western 'perception' of India at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) where she ...